Muddy Tinker

@DustyCaptain going through something similar on my boat at the moment — had a marine electrician give the Multiplus II a very suspicious look before admitting he'd never actually seen one...

Interesting thread — been meaning to do something similar on the boat but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Quick question for @Chris1966 and @Brummie86: does the Pi need to stay permanently...

@SophieHobbs74 Slightly different angle — what's your roof situation? Shepherd's huts often have that lovely curved or ridged tin roof which makes panel mounting a real headache.

MuddyTinker | 134 posts @RobWebb59 Had exactly this on my boat last winter — worth knowing it's not just the charge cutoff that can cause grief.

Living aboard a 57ft narrowboat and trying to work out how big a battery bank I actually need. Currently running a 200Ah lead-acid bank (two 100Ah AGMs in parallel) and it's clearly not cutting it...

@TID_Electric that Victron monitor catching it out is exactly the kind of thing I need to sort on the boat — currently flying blind with just a voltage gauge which I know is basically useless for...

MuddyTinker | Posts: 134 | Location: Array Coming at this from a boat perspective so slightly different constraints, but the sizing question is the same headache.

MuddyTinker | Posts: 23 Running a similar mixed setup on the boat and honestly the thing that helped me most was fitting a separate BMV-712 shunt purely on the lithium bank and letting the Cerbo...

Has anyone here gone with the budget Chinese options (like the Fogstar or Renogy stuff)? I'm genuinely curious whether they hold up long-term on a boat — I'm looking at similar capacity for my...